MuSe: The Musical Sentiment Dataset

The MuSe (Music Sentiment) dataset contains sentiment information for 90,408 songs. We computed scores for the affective dimensions of valence, dominance and arousal, based on the user-generated tags that are available for each song via Last.fm. In addition, we provide artist and title metadata as well as a Spotify ID and a MusicBrainz ID, which allow researchers to extend the dataset with further metadata, such as genre or year. Though the tags themselves cannot be included in the dataset, we include a jupyter notebook in our accompanying Github repository that demonstrates how to fetch the tags of a given song from the Last.fm API (Last.fm_API.ipynb) We further include a jupyter notebook in the same repository that demonstrates how one might enrich the dataset with audio features using different endpoints of the Spotify API using the included Spotify IDs (spotify_API.ipynb). Please note that in its current form, the dataset only contains tentative spotify IDs for a subset (around 68%) of the songs.